It's clearly still the holidays

Serbia and canada right up there too.

and Spain. and France

Spain and France are in decline.

Spain getting very old. Gasol is 38. His brother is turning 34.
France has gobert but not a stellar supporting cast. Lauvergne, batum, de colo, ntilkina. Good but not aus level.

The big up and comer is Germany in both men and women.

Schroeder
Bonga
Theis
Kleber
Wagner
Hartenstein
Lots of guys in Europe and lots of young prospects.

They are gonna kill it in Tokyo 2020

Yeah Canada could knock off usa in 2020.

I mean let's not get too carried away but if they are rolling and they catch USA on a bad night I guess they could yeah

Someone's suffering from heatstroke!!!

Spain still a powerhouse:

Abrines
Calderon
Gasol
Gasol
Hernangomez
Hernangomez
Ibaka
Mirotic
Rubio

France:

Ajinca
Batum
Fournier
Luwawu-Cabbarot
Mahinmi
Noah
Ntilkina
Okobo
Parker
Yabusele

A good starting five for Serbia too:

Bjelica
Bogdanovic
Jokic
Marjanovic
Teodosic

Canada

Murray/Pangos/Joseph
Barret/Stauskas/Gilgeous-Alexander
Wiggins/Jackson/Brooks
Powell/Lyles/Wiltjer
Olynyk/Thompson/Boucher

Greece

Calathes/Mantzaris/Sloukas
Dorsey/Larentzakis/T.Antetokoumpo
G.Antetokoumpo/Papanikolau/Papapetrou
Printezis/K.Antetokoumpo/Mitoglou
Bourousis/Koufous/Papagiannis

"The big up and comer is Germany in both men and women.

Schroeder
Bonga
Theis
Kleber
Wagner
Hartenstein"""

lets be real this team aint gonna do shit LOL

Germany topped the group with 9-1 record

Is team USA's second (and potentially third) best lineup available still better than the second best international team? Im going second yes and third probably.

Last time we played the USA, we lost by?

We lost by 10 but that was the BS Boomers. Before Simmons.

And the us team would be?

aussie team in 2020

Simmons
mills
ingles
Bolden
baynes

Exum
delly
adel
broekoff
thon maker
Mathiang
bogut

Positions

Simmons 1/4
Mills 2/1
Ingles 3/2
Bolden 4/5
Baynes 5/4

Exum 1/2
NBL guard (Sobey, Mccarron, Gliddon Goulding etc) 2/1
Broekhoff 3/2
Maker 4/5
Bogut 5

Dellavedova 1/2
Adel 3/2


Baynes/Bogut primary centres. Maker or Bolden can fill in at centre also.
No need for a Landale, Mathiang or Humphries, only when bogut retires.
Our issue is the guard position, could be one of several nbl players. Sobey, mccarron, gliddon, Goulding etc

Forgot creek.

Goulding sucks!

A stab a 3 US teams:

1st
Curry
Harden
Lebron
Durant
Davis
Westbrook
Thompson
Kawhi
George
Cousins
Oladipo
Griffin

2nd
Kyrie
Lillard
Beal
Draymond Green
Horford
Booker
Paul
DeRozan
Aldridge
Drummond
Walker
Covington

3rd
Lowry
McCollum
Zion Williamson
Millsap
Whiteside
Wall
Mitchell
Butler
Middleton
Myles Turner
Brook Lopez
Bledsoe

There is a lot of PG depth in the American ranks (Marcus Smart, Jrue Holiday miss out) but with the way the game has evolved, high IQ Euro bigs are much more effective than they used to be and the US suffers badly in the front court as you move away from their best lineup. Not hard to see someone like Jaren Jackson Jr in that third squad sooner rather than later. And yes I'd have Zion there today.

That third team has enough talent to compete with anyone internationally, but how good they are would depend on chemistry and buy-in. I don't think they'd go into Worlds or Olympics as the gold medal favourites. But I don't think there's a single player on that US 3rd team who wouldn't make the Boomers A team.

It's 2019 already. Delly will be 29 in 2020, not exactly turning 34 and really starting to slow down. He'll be two years younger in 2020 than Joe Ingles is now. I find the notion that Delly is done absolutely crazy. He would destroy Stattmann, who can't even get on the court in college.

Stattmann, Josh Green, both Frolings, Grida, McDowell-White, Deng Adel, yes there's a ton of young guys coming through but this board is relentlessly premature in selecting them to hypothetical Boomers teams.

#527
Don't try and bring sense into this board, that’s not how it works. You are 100% correct though.

future boomers? (95'-00' born)
Pg 96' Ben Simmons 6'10 / 95' Dante Exum 6'6 / 98' William McDowell White 6'5
Sg 00' Josh Green 6'6 / 98' Daniel Grida 6'6
Sf 96' Deng Adel 6'7 / 97' Jack White 6'7
Pf 97' Thon Maker 7'1 / 96' Jonah Bolden 6'10 / 95' Xavier Cooks 6'8
C 95' Jock Landale 6'11 / 98' Isaac Humphries 7'0

"yes there's a ton of young guys coming through but this board is relentlessly premature in selecting them to hypothetical Boomers teams."

so true.

I wouldn't have thought so. No... absolutely not

Froling is twice the player Humphriies is, Humphries so overrated on the board.